Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

Poor infrastructure impedes the development of tourism in Oudomxay Province.

The light causes a conformational change in a protein called rhodopsin.

January 16 An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.

It has a strong, disagreeable odor and a violently irritating vapor.

Low health literacy reduces the success of treatment and increases the risk of medical error.

Deficits are problematic if they finance consumption, not productive public investment on infrastructure.

It causes the heart to be unable to properly oxygenate the rest of the blood in the body.

Often, however, with advancement of the pregnancy the support for the fetus becomes compromised and the fetus dies.

NF II is caused by mutations of the Merlin gene, which seems to influence the form and movement of cells.

The availability of small arms and light weapons stokes conflicts, causes a high number of casualties, complicates peacekeeping operations and hampers disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and the peaceful settlement of disputes.

Cancer currently accounts for 31 per cent of male deaths and 26 per cent of female deaths.

Addiction to Middle East oil distorts foreign policies, causes wars, and ravages the environment.

The development of agriculture in hillsides, edges of the rivers and dunes provokes erosion destroying the ground, and reducing land fertility, which harm women the most.

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage.

Unfortunately, this type of old thinking breeds more crises than it can ever resolve.

Crony businesses from the US and Europe, which are utterly unfamiliar with local conditions, squander time, aid funds, and opportunities.

In Germany, the medieval town of Hitzacker had water levels of 7.63 meters, destroying many buildings and causing considerable damage to other private property.

The absence of this facility has caused a great deal of health hazards for women, taken its toll upon their enrolment in schools (for want of this facility in the schools) and even been a cause of violence against them.

But a corrupt judge deliberately destroys the moral foundation of a society and causes incalculable distress to individuals through abusing his office, while being referred to as Honourable'  .

The pandemic, combined with deep rooted poverty and food insecurity, is causing a new kind of vulnerability, affecting almost every young person in Lesotho.

The conflict in the contested border regions of Sool and Sanaag, continued between Somaliland and Puntland , causing serious human rights violations, and resulting in prisoners of war on both sides.

This approach contributes to climate change, interrupts hydrological cycles, and causes soil degradation, all of which undermine our planet s ability to produce food in the long term.

The State party adds that the author displays very poor behaviour and is involved in daily incidents, insults, threats and attacks he was written up for disciplinary matters 19 times in 2000, 58 times in 2001 and 16 times up to that point in 2002.

Oil prices may fall once these shocks dissipate, but speculative effects could keep them relatively high, weakening the world economy and depressing stock markets.

Use of oil with tetra ethyl lead causes much pollution, with lead containing carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and policyclic nitro hydride.

The discrepancy is delaying the achievement of universal primary education, while the attempt to increase the number of children in schools is compromising the quality of education.

Animal welfare advocates protest that crowding the chickens keeps them from forming a natural flock, causes them stress, and, in the case of laying hens, prevents them from even stretching their wings.

It has been observed that corruption, though a universal problem, is more present in some societies than in others, causing monumental devastation on the development efforts of these societies.

I received reports of denied or delayed access that resulted in women giving birth at the checkpoint, causing complications and loss of life in some cases.

Back in China, the dollar peg has led to large and growing foreign exchange reserves, which are fueling domestic inflationary pressures and causing public sector debt to balloon.

The lance blows 99 pure oxygen over the hot metal, igniting the carbon dissolved in the steel, to form carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and causing the temperature to rise to about 1700 C.

The AIDS epidemic takes a heavy toll on women and adolescent girls, who account for some 57 per cent of all people living with HIV in sub Saharan Africa and about 50 per cent on average worldwide.

Removes some scaffolding. One of the reasons Rome remains the extraordinary place it is that because of scaffolding and the determination to maintain the fabric, it is a city that continues to grow and adapt to the needs of the particular time in which it finds itself, or we find it.

There is scientific consensus, documented in the assessment reports of IPCC, that the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to human activities is altering the Earth's climate, bringing about a general global warming.

Security measures by the Israeli occupying forces combined with the response this provoked among various Palestinian elements have contributed to an integrated system of violence, which intersects with a traditional patriarchal gender order that creates traumatizing impacts on Palestinian women.

Collusion between private firms is a significant source of foreign anti competitive behaviour increasingly resulting in price and market rigging of cartels across developing countries that stifle competition in the markets of both developed and developing countries.

For example, malaria decreases GDP growth by up to 1.3 in some developing nations, and by killing tens of millions in sub Saharan Africa, AIDS alone threatens the economies, social structures, and political stability of entire societies .

In considering well known obstacles, it was pointed out that, in many countries, compulsory use of customs brokers' services increases costs and often results in additional delays, as these brokers are not always aware of current procedural requirements.

In practice, however, constraints of accessibility, technology and institutional arrangements cause local and regional shortfalls in supply that put pressure on some forests for unsustainable levels of harvesting of wood (including fuelwood and non timber forest products).

Then, as Chinese were wondering why 2008, a year of supposed good fortune marked by the lucky number eight, had started with so much misfortune, a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan province, killing 80,000 people and leaving millions homeless.

What amazes our neighbors and partners and increasingly causes distrust is that ever since the beginning of the global meltdown last September, the German government has focused almost exclusively on national crisis management, rebuffing any and all attempts at a European approach.